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"Georgie Porgie" is imitating all the Maurice and Freddie White stuff, it's imitating Paul Humphrey heavily, it's imitating Earl Palmer very heavily. When it comes to that groove, my biggest influences were Paul Humphrey, Ed Geene, Earl Palmer, and the godfather of that 16th- note groove, James Gadsen. That "Georgie Porgie" groove I owe to them.
It's the groove on 'Lowdown," just a different lift of it maybe, a different tempo. I stole all those grooves from those guys, but I may lay the beat just a little bit differently, depending on the song.
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Jeff Porcaro explains his drumming on "Georgy Porgy" (Modern Drummer, 1988):"Georgie Porgie" is imitating all the Maurice and Freddie White stuff, it's imitating Paul Humphrey heavily, it's imitating Earl Palmer very heavily. When it comes to that groove, my biggest influences were Paul Humphrey, Ed Geene, Earl Palmer, and the godfather of that 16th- note groove, James Gadsen. That "Georgie Porgie" groove I owe to them.
It's the groove on 'Lowdown," just a different lift of it maybe, a different tempo. I stole all those grooves from those guys, but I may lay the beat just a little bit differently, depending on the song.
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